The politics of lists : bureaucracy and genocide under the Khmer Rouge / James A. Tyner

By:

Tyner, James A, 1966-

Material type: Text

TextOriginal language: English Publication details: Morgantown : West Virginia University Press , 2018 Description: xxi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmISBN:

9781946684417 (paperback)

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DDC classification:

959.6042

Contents:

Emerging from the shadows -- A tale of two lists -- Into the darkness -- Mortal accountings

Summary: "The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs"

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index

Emerging from the shadows -- A tale of two lists -- Into the darkness -- Mortal accountings

"The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs"

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